From the history of press.

Fill the gaps using active vocabulary.

I started my career as a journalist working as a reporter on the local ................................................... (1)in my home town. The first thing I had to do was to take over the role of agony aunt. This was quite difficult for an eighteen-year-old boy straight out of school! Still, I managed to produce enough ................................................... (2) and in time for my first ................................................... (3). When that first column of mine ................................................... (4) to press,I felt extremely relieved and was so proud that I stayed up all night so that I could get half a dozen copies ................................................... (5) off the press for all the members of my family! I still have a copy of that first article of mine in a folder where I keep ................................................... (6) of all the work that I am especially proud of.

?12. Rewrite these sentences so that they mean the same thing, using the word in brackets.

1. Every newspaper inevitably gives its own particular view of events. (spin)

2. I have to find some articles from some previous editions of The Times. (back)

3. Read all about the royal divorce! Only just published. (hot)

4. The floods took up more space in the papers than any other story this week. (COLUMN)

5. Politicians are always ready and willing to give their opinions to the press. (air)

6. The story about the scandal surrounding her uncle broke on her wedding day. (hit)

7. Any newspaper does all it can to prevent being sued for libel. (character)

8. Muck-raking is a characteristic activity of an inferior kind of newspaper. (press)

Millions of people from around the world buy a newspaper every day. Some people read a broadsheet for its analysis of world events. Others just flick through a tabloid for the latest celebrity gossip or to glance at the horoscopes or TV listings. Whatever the reason, your paper can provide you with all sorts of useful entertaining information. In the past, newspapers played an even more important role, as they helped to improve literacy and encouraged people to fight for freedom and human rights.

The concept of newspapers can be traced as far as back as ancient Rome, where each day handwritten notes would be put up around the city and its provinces. They would give news about government decisions, important marriages, births, deaths, and even the results of gladiatorial contests. Printed reports of news events started to appear in the 16th century, and by the late 18th century newspapers were common in Europe and the USA. In fact, many newspapers which are still going strong today, like the Observer and the Times in London, date back to this period. As printing technology has improved, newspapers have been able to increase circulation, and now individual newspapers can sell millions of copies. Even with the introduction and development of other media, such as TV and radio, newspapers still play an important part in our lives.

The British Press

X1. Listening

Listen to the interview with Hugh Stephenson, Professor of Journalism at City University, London. Put down the numbers he gives when speaking about the following papers:

Answer the questions:

1. How were the popular papers invented?

2. Which were the first British newspapers?

3. Why does regional press make a great deal of money?

4. What is “vanity publishing”?

5. How did Mr. Rupert Murdoch make his newspaper into a profitable

business?

6. Which in interviewee’s opinion are the best newspapers?

7. Where can “the cheap journalism” be found?

8. What does the political colour of a newspaper in Britain depend on?

? 13. Translate the following sentences into English:

1. Я вважаю, що немає фінансового зв’язку між політичними партіями та пресою.

2. Дехто засновує газети з міркувань престижу або політичного впливу, якіий вони надають.

3. Британці дуже полюбляють читати пресу: майже кожний кожний британець читає одну газету кожного дня.

4. Якщо власнику не подоба.ться робота головного редактора, він може його звільнити.

5. Місцеві газети головним чином освітлюють місцеві подіі.

6. У таких газет як “Таймс” та “Файненшиал Таймс” немає конкурентів.

7. У порівнянні з іншими країнами, в Британії велика кількість національних газет.

8. Бульварна преса має широке коло читачів.

& 1. READING